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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 08:54:26 -0700
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:11:16 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

>On 9/20/24 08:36, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:31:40 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:53:42 +0000, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> On 9/19/2024 9:55 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>
>>>>> And you really don't want to know what we do to Mobious Strip
>>>>> Earthers....
>>>>
>>>> Oh my goodness, there are really people on the intertubes espousing =
that
>>>> craziness !
>>>
>>> Really? Other than as a joke? I'll have to look into this. But since
>>> there are people who believe in a hollow Earth with holes at the =
poles,
>>> I could almost believe there were Klein Bottle-earthers.
>>=20
>> A Globe with holes-in-the-poles is an object they can see and feel.
>>=20
>> A Moebius strip is something the can see and feel.
>>=20
>> On the Great Plains, the Earth sure /looks/ flat. Well, as long as you
>> don't raise your eyes up enough to notice the Rockies slowly getting
>> higher as you move West.
>>=20
>> But a Klein bottle has no physical analogue. So I would be /very/
>> surprised at anyone believing the Earth is a Klein bottle.
>
>
>	A Klein bottle is a physical analogue.
>	Acme Klein Bottle <https://www.kleinbottle.com>
>	Acme will sell you a very large Klien bottle.
>
>	Just a search will bring you illustrations of the fine art
>of the glass blower.
>	The earth may not be a Klein bottle but the Universe might be one. Or=20
>at least we have no way yet of saying exactly what strange
>geometry it follows. And I recall one SF story in a pulp magazine
>that discovered the universe was more like a toilet.

Not unless the neck /does not/ put a hole in the body of the bottle
where it passes through it.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"